| Author | Message | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 599 Registered: 1-2003 |
When I had my 172 in San Jose, I loaned it to pilots that flew Angle Flights. That is one of the best services around. I only wish that I got my lisence to do the flights myself. I was happy with my solo permit for local flying and could never make the time to get the full program going. | ||
| Vernon Hill (Vwh3rd)
Junior Member Username: Vwh3rd Post Number: 165 Registered: 1-2003 |
ANGEL FLIGHT is my favorite, I donate my services to fly sick patients to and from doctors appointments and surgeries. The patients have the full range of disorders and can't afford to get to the designated appointments. I host the Angel Flight East Golf Tournament at my Golf Course as well as fly missions when I can. It is the best Charity I have seen that is always in need of pilots, non pilot volunteers and of course $ | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 597 Registered: 1-2003 |
To augment giving, i.e.: giving a check donantion, me and the little one visit our local hospital about once a month and visit kids with cancer. Sometimes we bring a stuffed bear or the like. We always have Archie comics and Disney magazines to give. Somedays the visits make you cry and other days the visits make you feel like you wrote a million dollar check  | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 967 Registered: 12-2001 |
Mom and I were top fundraisers (Nationally) for the Heart and Stroke Foundation Mother/daughter walkathon for a few years. We walk in my father's memory - he had a severe stroke and was hospitalized for 7 years. The last year we were given free airline tickets and my mom made the best suggestion - we gave them to the second place winner since we had already won the same thing the year before. We also walk for the Humane Society "Paws inthe Park" and I personally give to a local cancer care hospice that supported a dear friend until she passed on from ovarian cancer (her and her husband were instrumental in the start of my website) | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 588 Registered: 1-2003 |
Ps: I donate thousands each year to The Lymphoma Society. My father passed away of this five years ago. Very ugly form of cancer. | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 587 Registered: 1-2003 |
Bob: Is there anything that we can do for your family? Please reply. **Everyone can bust my BAll$ for the following** Arthur: Believe me, I know that the ACLU is not a charity. In regards to such, they certainly have their finger in several. I really feel for ACLU members, so blind they are! I could go one for hours on this one, but I won't. Does anyone really think it's the ACLU that keeps people like me from being thrown in jail, as might happen in China, for speaking out like this? Anyone with any sense knows the ACLU would bring China right into our very homes if we would let them. And they would jump for joy to see people like me put away for good. That's how dedicated they are to liberty and justice. In California, the people voted via popular initiative to turn back the 'invasion from Mexico and China': to stop giving education and medicine to illegal aliens (God bless the hard-working people in the US from these countries that actually contribute). The ACLU shopped this popular state initiative to a radical, left wing federal judge, Maryann Pfaelzer, and managed to trash the votes of nearly 6 million Californians, condemning our public schools and health care systems to a third-world existence. Mark Rosenbaum, the capo of the ACLU, actually celebrated this blow against the people! So who are these ACLU fiends? If we focus on them as individuals, we find most were brought up in dysfunctional homes, by commie parents, and attended commie camps in the summer. In my opinion, they're a psychotic bunch who were suckled on Karl Marx. Many are non compos mentis and survive on medication, yet they are quite affluent due to the enormous settlements they extort with bogus lawsuits while they pose as champions of the downtrodden! The truth is that they are beasts of prey living off the downtrodden, and are responsible for much of the lack of justice in our society and for the perpetuation of our social problems. America cries out for a strong leader to arise, dis-band, de-fund and de-port these lawyer-gangsters before we all end up in a new, Rwanda-like reality...OK..I feel better now! | ||
| Erik (Teenferrarifan)
Junior Member Username: Teenferrarifan Post Number: 150 Registered: 2-2003 |
I agree with Taek they are really competitive and I don't care how bad of a day or week you are having when those kids smile there is no way you can't. It is a great organization. Erik | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 747 Registered: 11-2002 |
I've donated both time and money to the special olympics. An awesome bunch of kids and families. Those guys and gals are COMPETITIVE!! I got dusted by just about every member of the particular team I was helping in short distance sprints. I was gassed and tired at the end of the day, but they laughed their asses off watching me try. Priceless... Cheers | ||
| Erik (Teenferrarifan)
Junior Member Username: Teenferrarifan Post Number: 148 Registered: 2-2003 |
Just last month I helped with the special olympics. Now, I didn't donate any large amount of money and I really just gave my time. For what its worth I had a great time and the kids really had a great time. I like the special olympics because it really tries and does all it can to make those kids feel like winners. Also the kids really look forward to it and had fun even though the weather was bad. Erik | ||
| Vincent (Vincent348)
Member Username: Vincent348 Post Number: 487 Registered: 4-2003 |
The Special Olympics are great. I used to help with the our local winter Special Olympics in St. Louis, and it was so much fun for everyone. If you're concerned about how much of your money is going to a charity give your time. Sometimes that is more valued than a $ contribution, and much more rewarding. | ||
| Drstranglove (Drstranglove)
Member Username: Drstranglove Post Number: 512 Registered: 4-2003 |
Seriously though, Toys for Tots. Marines Rock!!! DrS | ||
| JT (Mightymagician)
Junior Member Username: Mightymagician Post Number: 52 Registered: 11-2002 |
Habitat for Humanity. | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 716 Registered: 11-2002 |
Dave, I saw your post in the Ferrari stories thread. That's great. I do like the idea about Make a Wish foundation. Problem is I don't have a Ferrari and am not exactly in tune with the people who do in the Bay Area (except for the great FChat folks I've met here). I doubt there are kids who have a lifelong dream of being in a Porsche. It would be fun to organize an event like that. Kenny beat me to it, so let's see how it works out for him. Cheers | ||
| Dave (Maranelloman)
Intermediate Member Username: Maranelloman Post Number: 1753 Registered: 1-2002 |
Make-A-Wish Foundation | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1916 Registered: 4-2002 |
THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION IS MY 1ST THE I.R.S. IS MY 2ND 2ND CHOICE I HAVE NO OPTION... | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 3127 Registered: 6-2001 |
American Cancer society is one i like. This past weekend we raised approx $55,000 by a "relay for life" event here on campus(2nd highest amt raised by one of these events) where tams singed up and members of each team took turns walking fron friday to saturday It was a fun night, and i didnt really mind walking for about an hour. I;m suprised i even made it to my 6:40am walking time. Infact, i was suprised i could even walk at all. One good friend of mine on my team walked for just about 12 hours. He did what he guessed to be 45 laps of the route which works out to over 25 miles. The whole route was lined with luminaries, which were paper bags with candles in them that had "In honor of (name)" for survivors or "In memory of..." for people who lost their battles. I think the most moving part of the event was the luminary ceremony where classmates who are survivors of various cancers and classmates who are/were caretakers of a family member or friend told thier story. The reason i like this charity is because it benefits all of us. Each of us have been and will continue to be affected by cancer, wether it be a family member or friend, or friend of a friend who has it, or god forbid, one of us. Another charity, which may be more individuly rewarding, is the appalachia service project. Thats where groups go to the appalachia region and repair houses for families way below the poverty line. Not only did my group of 8 people make a house warmer, safer and drier, but we also bonded with the family, and in this case, it was a very big extended family because the "house" was actually an old school that was pretty big. I had fun spending part of my summer making a school into a home. | ||
| thad brown (Thadbrown)
New member Username: Thadbrown Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2003 |
My favorite charity is Give Kids the World. It is based out of Orlando and grants wishes to terminally ill kids that want to go to Disney and such places. All of the kids there are so greatful. It is a joy to volunteer there. If you are in the Orlando area be sure to think about helping out. Here is the website to read more about it http://www.gktw.org Thad Brown | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Intermediate Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 1866 Registered: 6-2001 |
In San Francisco, we have Glide Memorial. It's run by Cecil Williams, and it provides food and shelter for the homeless. I haven't seen the figures but I would estimate that about 60 - 70% of the money goes to those who need the help. My wife and I provide what we can to them. By the way there is a card carrying member of the ACLU on this chat. For your information, it isn't a charity, its a public foundation, that makes sure that people with diverse views are not restricted from exercising their rights under our constitution. Just remember that old line from Shakespear: "kill all the lawyers.." What they don't tell you is the phrase in front of that: "If we are to forment revolution, we must first...." Our first amendment is meaningless if we only provide free speech for those whose opinions we share. Only those whose opinions we hate need that amendment, because if the average man had his way, we'd shut them up. Art | ||
| Drstranglove (Drstranglove)
Member Username: Drstranglove Post Number: 505 Registered: 4-2003 |
Me. | ||
| Lou B (Toby91)
Junior Member Username: Toby91 Post Number: 183 Registered: 4-2001 |
I am disgusted with charities that pay their staff big bucks who live like kings in fancy digs and doll out 10-20% of the take to do the real charitable work. The Salvation Army I understand pays their top guy $11K/year plus room and board. Now thats a real charity. | ||
| Kenny Herman (Kennyh)
Member Username: Kennyh Post Number: 940 Registered: 8-2001 |
Bob, one of my good friends has CF and is really sick (she's 18).. What a shame. | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 1223 Registered: 3-2001 |
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. My 19 year old niece has CF and will be lucky to make it to 25. | ||
| michael Alpert (Taters)
New member Username: Taters Post Number: 50 Registered: 5-2003 |
I donate to the biggest charity in the world on April 15 it's called the Treasury Department of the United states of America! | ||
| PeterS (Peters)
Member Username: Peters Post Number: 581 Registered: 1-2003 |
I am for ANY charity that has nothing to do with the thieves at the ACLU | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 709 Registered: 11-2002 |
OK folks let's hear some experiences on what charity has done the most with what they have been given. Personally I love the Special Olympics and what they stand for. I have yet to give a substantial amount, but seeing some of their events I think I might take a plunge next year. I used to give my time to them while in high school and college and have done some minor local events for them. I am currently looking for a good breast cancer research charity. I'll probably start giving very small this year and gradually increase until I build trust. I would also love to find something that encourages safe driving, but have not really seen anything. Any other causes or charities you guys like? Kind of out of the blue, but I got reminded by an email I received about a Special Olympics event here in the CA Bay Area. Cheers |